The Boggart Fights Back
core novel 2018 The Boggart
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.83 (165 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781534406292 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Twenty-one years after the second book, the Canadian protagonists have grown up and had children of their own, and two of them, ten-year-old twins Allie and Jay, come to Scotland to visit their grandfather at the Boggart's home on Loch Linnhe. The castle and its loch are under threat from William Trout, a wealthy, bullying American real-estate developer who wants to tear up the land and buildings for a luxury resort and golf course. The Boggart and his friend Nessie, from the second book, join the humans' efforts to save the place, and call up other legendary Old Things of Scotland to help frighten the developer away. Comedy, environmental anxiety and folklore blend in the trilogy's conclusion, published when its author was eighty-two.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Boggart
- Series: The Boggart core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Susan Cooper
Notes
- From the series record (The Boggart): Susan Cooper's comic trilogy about a boggart, a mischievous, invisible, shape-shifting spirit of Scottish folklore who has haunted Castle Keep on Loch Linnhe for centuries, and the Canadian family who inherit the castle and, with it, him.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Boggart: position 3 of 3: previous The Boggart and the Monster (1997)
Sources
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